The emergence of so many different types of devices and platforms for the consumption of news is turning out to be a nightmare of designers, in addition to the skewered, and sometimes buggy, adoption of standards by browser makers. So, more than ever before, news sites have to take on a very pro-active role in…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
The usefulness of topic pages on news sites
Many new-generation content management systems that drive news sites have an in-built capacity to generate topics pages and populate them with links to content. But combining an automated system with manual curation – which is what sites like the New York Times have been doing, makes a world of difference to topics pages. Its hard…
Why readers don’t take kindly to news site redesigns
News sites that go for a re-design need to remember what usability expert Jackob Nielsen has said: there is a tradeoff between the degree of change and its acceptance. I’ve written about this in the past, but here’s another instance of history repeating itself. Consider the public response to the recent Washington Post redesign; the…
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